Inner City Unit: Poppa Mm Mao Mao decoded

The secret text decoded by RandM for Nazar: POPPA MM MOA MOA. The alphabet was taken from another type book I gave Barney, a primer of American show-card caps from the Chicago school of sign writers in the early thirties.

Technically we’re both wrong (And in spelling so was Barney), it’s a quote from “Surfin bird” but when sung the last word sounds more like “Mau” than “Mao” Inner City Unit once had a huge plastic backdrop with the phrase from the LP on it. It was stolen at Stonehenge.

SURFIN’ BIRD
THE TRASHMEN 1963

A-well-a everybody’s heard about the bird
B-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a don’t you know about the bird?
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a…